Wall-covering.



No. 807,155. PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905. T. OLEARY.

WALL COVERING.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.20. 1905.

WITNESSES: IIVVENTOR By W ATTORNEYS "o NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY CLEARY, OF SOHUYLERVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO STAND- ARD WALL PAPER COMPANY, OF SANDYHILL, NEW YORK.

WALL-COVERING.

Original application filed December 5, 1904:, Serial No. 235,512. and this application filed February 20, 1905. Serial No. 246,498.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY CLEARY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Schuylerville, in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Wall-Covering, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, this being a division of the application for improvements in the manufacture of Wall-coverings, Serial No. 235,512, filed by me December5, 1904.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved wall-covering which has a highly ornamental plush effect.

The invention consists of a new article of manufacturenamely, a wall-covering consisting of a fabric body and coating thereon in plush effect.

The invention also consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged crosssection of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the machine for producing the wall-covering.

The wall-covering illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 consists of a fabric bodyA, of paper or other material, provided on its face with a coating A of a ground color, from which coating, while wet, portions A are removed by wiping and in such a manner as to give the colorcoating a plush or crushed or mottled effect. In order to produce the desired result, I-prefer to employ two cooperating machines or devicessuch as shown in Fig. 3, for instance one of the machines being a wiping-machine B and the other an ordinary coating-machine C for coating the surface of the fabric A with a ground color. are more fully shown and described in the application for Letters Patent above referred to, so that further detail description of the same is not deemed necessary.

As illustrated in Fig. 3, the framework B of the wiping-maohine B is mounted on the framework C of the coating-machine C, and the coated fabric body is carried along by an endless apron D, passing over a table E and Specification of Letters Patent.

The machines B and C Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

around a roller F on the coating-machine C. The wiping-machine B is provided with a traveling endless blanket or apron G, preferably made of woolen cloth and carrying on its surface wipers H, made of chamois or similar soft fabric material, each gathered to form a bunch, as plainly indicated in the drawings. The wipers H are placed suitable distances apart and may be arranged in regular order, according to a predetermined design, or placed at random on the apron. The endless apron G passes under a roller 1, journaled in bearings I, held to slide in suitable guideways on the frame C, the bearings I being adjusted by suitable screw-rods I or other means, so as to bring the wipers H in proper relation to the body of the wall-covering A directly opposite the roller F, as plainly indicated in F1g. 3, so that the wipers move in contact with the coated surface of the fabric body of the wall-covering A to take up portions of the wet surface to produce a plush effect or graded shading on the coated surface of the wall-covering. The wall-covering and the apron travel in the same direction for the time being. By adjusting the roller I nearer to -01 farther from the roller F it is evident that the wipers H are pressed with more or less force in contact with the coated surface of the wall-covering to take up more or less of the ground color. By bunching the fabric material forming the wipers H it is evident that an irregular surface is provided on each Wiper, and as the latter is pressed in contact with the coated surface of the wallcovering A it is evident that more or less ground color is taken up and a crushed or mottled appearance is,produced onthe ground color by each bunched wiper.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As a new article of manufacture, a wallcovering consisting of a fabric body, and a color coating thereon having spaced portions irregular in shape, the color onthe irregularlyshaped spaced portions being in varying shades and contrasting with the general surface of the color coating, producing a plush efiect.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a wallcovering consisting of a fabric body, and a ground-color coating thereon having spaced portions irregularly separated from each 1 0 color coating at the wiped portions being more other by the general surface of the color coator less removed, producing irregular grada ing, the coating at each of saidvspaced portions of shade.

tions having irregular gradations of shade, In testimony whereof I have signed my thereby producing a plush effect. name to this specification in the presence of 3. As a new article pf n farufacture, a Wglltwo subscribing Witnesses.

coverin consisting 0 a a ric bod an a color c oating thereon having irr gularly TIMOTHY CLEARY' wiped portions, spaced from each other by the general surface of the colorcoating, the

' -Witnesses:

SHELDON B. GILL, THOMPSON S. BARNES. 

